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I voted against the resolution and all of the amendments tabled by the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance and the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats.
This text is an alibi, one extra element in a long drawn-out strategy that has no other aim than to put a stop to European funding of embryonic stem cell research.
There have been three targeted attacks in less than nine months.
March 2005: the Verts/ALE Group and the PPE-DE Group initiated a resolution on the trafficking in female reproductive cells taking place in Romania. Their only motive was to denounce cloning - including therapeutic cloning - and to demand that the EU cut off all funding for this research.
October 2005: 73 Members wrote to the President of the Commission on behalf of Parliament. For what reason? To attack – once again - freedom of research in Europe in the name of their beliefs, which, by the way, I do respect.
A few of us have set about replying to this letter, and a good 127 Members have made it clear to Mr Barroso that it is unthinkable for us to exclude Europe from a crucial area of research.
26 October 2005 and the third act carried out by these Groups: holding this resolution hostage.
By means of this obscurantist vote, 338 Members have decided not to give science any chance whatsoever. This is just one more disastrous sign for genome research and for million of patients in Europe."@en1
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